Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
Throughout the more than 10 years I’ve been writing Petals from Roseland, I’ve been told ...
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Profiles
Carmen Salerno takes the lead at Flowers of Italy
Carmen Salerno is in the middle of a two-year term as president of the Flowers ...
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Marine gunner Giovanni Insolia (Vietnam)
Persuaded by a smooth-talking recruiter to join the Marines during the height of the Vietnam ...
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Chicago Fire owner Joe Mansueto
An American entrepreneur with deep Italian roots, Joe Mansueto is bringing the indomitable spirit of ...
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Volleyball standout Rachel Giustino
Relatively short for an outsider hitter, Rachel Giustino excelled at collegiate volleyball through a combination ...
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Biancalana brothers turn over reins to Elmcrest Banquets
Jim and Al Biancalana turned over the reins of Elmcrest Banquets in November, ending a ...
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Leisure
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Lyric offers reason for hope
With the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019-20 season cut short by a pandemic that has ...
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Film
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Fellini exhibit to open at Cinecittà
January 20, 2020, marks the 100th birthday of Fellini. To celebrate the event, Cinecittà will ...
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Professions
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Romanucci & Blandin attorneys shine
Fourteen attorneys at Romanucci & Blandin have been named 2020 Illinois Super Lawyers and Illinois ...
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Community
Fricano daughters offer NW suburbs signs of hope
They began popping up all over the Northwest suburbs like daffodils in the spring: lawn ...
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Ron Giordano lends a hand across the border and back
In the course of a 50-year career at Huntley-based H.S. Crocker, Ron Giordano has helped ...
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Literary symposium takes to the internet
IA Literati, a celebration of local Italian-American authors and books, will move to an online ...
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Swiss guard stands watch over St. Peter’s at Casa
Thanks to a donation from local businessman Gino Bartucci, a member of the pope’s elite ...
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The Weather in Italian
For a general assessment of the weather, Italians use the multipurpose verb fare (‘to do’ ...
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Realty in the age of COVID-19
With the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing as Fra Noi goes to press, business has ...
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Musical adventure
by Addison Teng In November 2019, Music Institute of Chicago violin and chamber music faculty ...
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Finding joy
Joy can seem as hard to come by nowadays as hand sanitizer, but at least ...
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